I seem to have joined the UNDER TOMORROW’S SKY think tank.  More on this soon.

When I am England football manager, there will be no more talk of 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 formations. There will only be THE DEATH ARROW FORMATION.

…more than one in every two comics sold by Diamond in October was a DC comic.

Okay, that’s more like a fight.  I wish that many of the New 52 DC comics were more creatively compelling and less editorially pissed-in, and I wish DC had dealt Marvel a nutpunch right out of the gate, but I do really like this performance by DC. 

It’ll make Marvel work harder.  And then, maybe, just for a short while, commercial comics will be less ugly and stupid.

This on the same day that Marvel are letting a bunch of TPBs go out of print just-because.

I’m going to podcast again.

I apologise in advance.

If you are old like me, you will remember Morrissey once singing “Hang the blessed DJ/ Because the music that they constantly play/ It says nothing to me about my life.” And then lots of people singing “Hang the DJ.”

I went shopping for comics today. Felt much the same way.

But the new issue of CASANOVA is on Comixology now.

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+++ Cracking up at “ZARDOZ Week” on Mounds & Circles+++

Sometimes I wonder why I don’t get invited to speak at more conferences, and then I remember that at the last one I spoke at I called the audience "fucking monsters" haha oh dear

Yeah, I’ve got nothing today.  Back tomorrow!

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And the previous thirty posts will be rolled into a small POD book sometime in the near future.

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AV referendum results:

Southend-on-Sea

Yes : 13,488 (28.19%)
No : 34,365 (71.81%)

(Turnout: 38.13%)

Oh, fuck you.

I was looking for a villain for an issue of SECRET AVENGERS for Marvel Comics when I found Arnim Zola, who’s basically this guy with no head and his torso is just a massive face.  The temptation to suspend a glowing halo over his headstump and call him ARNIM ZOLA JESUS is crushing.

The monthlyish gathering for webcomickers to plug their wares at the FREAKANGELS message board has begun.

There’s a similar thread for people making magazines, print or digital, too: link.

Piece on the TRANSMET charity book at Wired.  Wherein I am probably snottier than I needed to be.

"I’d rather we had more real journalists like Matt Taibbi or Laurie Penny or Jake Adelstein,” he told Wired.com in an e-mail. “Rather than monkeys on content farms, or lizards who lie for coins.”

I've mostly been watching al-Jazeera live coverage of the Egypt thing for the last few hours. Perhaps you'd like to as well.

Matt Webb of BERG has returned to blogwriting with something of a vengeance. Hypnotism, animism, mathematics and magic at the speed of thought. Excellent.

Really wishing I could post some of Matt Brooker's pages for SVK. Absolutely gorgeous stuff. We're still working on it -- jokes are flying around about the book being cursed now, as I got sick as we started it, then Matt got sick, then as he recovered I got sick again. The book may kill us both off. Thankfully, we're not tied to a traditional solicitation and release process.

Maybe I'll try and leak a panel or two soon.